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Our Awards — Recent Recipients
  

  
Maitland Banting Silver Quill Award
  
Young Poet's Award
A link to some recent winning entries for the above literary awards can be found
on the Hamilton Public Library's website; search for "Power of the Pen".
 
da Vinci Science Fair Awards
  
Music Award
( This competition was terminated in 2007 )
  

  

The Maitland Banting Silver Quill Award

  
2010    Paige Louter    Outside In
2009    Ellis Ritz
Victoria Lamond
   Out of the Woods
Honourable Mention for Just Me
2008    Brooke Anderson    The whole is more than the Somme of its parts
2007    Laura McCrackin    Providence
2006    Jillian Wyman    Potassium
2005    Olwyn Keane
Margaret Mackenzie
   Family Matters
Robert and Michael (Effigy)
2004    Meghan Quinlan    The Storyteller
2003    Debbie Kerkhof    Master of the House
2002    Tim DeJong    The Sacrifice
  
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Young Poet's Award

  
2010    Paige Louter
Cody Hansen
   Wingless
Honourable Mention for We
2009    Eva Kay
Kristen McMinn
   Poppy
Honourable Mention for I Am
2008    Laura McCrackin
Paige Louter
   Tulips
Honourable Mention for Blue
2007    Morgan Piczak    A Pineapple Experience
2006    Marlena Millikin    Bubbles and Feathers in the Air
2005    Sarah Palakovic    Baby's Song
2004    Joel Linde    Alarmed
2003    Heather Olaveson
Meagan Nederveen
Andrea Erin Van Pelt
   Creation, Genesis 2:7
Honourable Mention for Survivor
Honourable Mention for Mazurka: A Sonnet
2002    [name withheld]
Laura Clarke
Brooke Anderson
   1st Place for [title withheld at author's request]
2nd Place for Untitled
Honourable Mention for What Does a Cottage Know?
  
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The da Vinci Science Fair Awards

  
2011    Peter Kahama    Environmentally friendly ethanol alternative
2010    Vivian Leung    Morphological and functional characterization of lower female genital epithelial cell cultures grown in different conditions
2009    Natalie Michalski    Detecting BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor) in CSF ([dog] cerebrospinal fluid) using Western Blotting
2008    Aaron Hakim    Microarray profiling of gene expression in the normal aging brain of drosophila
2007    Aaron Hakim    Gene expression changes in Parkinson's disease: Genes mediating alpha-synuclein toxicity in a Drosophila model
2006    Kayla Cornale
Aaron Hakim
   Sounds into Syllables II — Windows to the World of Childhood Autism
Affecting Aging: Protection of cSOD-deficient Drosophila from Oxidative Stress
2005    Kayla Cornale    Sounds into Syllables: A Teaching System for Autistic Children
2004    Colin O'Flynn    Eagle in a Rack: Real-Time Object Tracking in Analog Video
2003    Anthony Chiarelli
Hsinwen Than
   See the Unseen, Hear the Unhear. (Can one type of digital media be used to hide another?)
Concrete Blocks: An Environmental Response II. (Effects of adding recycled plastic to concrete)
2002    Eva Vertes
Anthony Chiarelli
   Protection Against Beta-Amyloid Induced Apoptosis
Steganography -- You Can Look But You Can't See. (Can one type of digital media be used to hide another type? Steganography is the science of concealing data.)
  
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Music Award

  
2006    Wei Yi Yin    Violin
2005    Colt Pierson    Trombone
2004    Andrew Song    Violin
2003    Nick Davis    Double Bass
  
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